Just taking a break

My first video blog. Don't laugh.

Phases

Now, we've all gone through phases. You know, things that you thought you would take up because you thought you'd be "The Bomb Shizzz"- either to be cool with your friends, or just for the sake of taking up - we've all done it. Some may have stuck with you over the years while others just seem to fall by the way side. I've had a few, some worth reminiscing and laughing over are:

The rap phase:
Ugh, I still have some really craptastic rap songs on my iTunes playlist that I wished I had never wasted bandwidth on - oh, um, I meant my money on. I usually leave my playlist on shuffle so whenever a random rap song comes up, lets say 50cent's In da club, a sigh usually follows along with a press of the next track button. I remember trying to get into rap music so that I could be cool with my peers. Loser.

The Boy Band phase:
Now, this is going to sound incredibly horrible and embarrassing. But I had this stage in my life where I wanted so badly to be famous in some like, boy band or something. This was back in the mid 90's or so and boy bands then were flavor of the month. I did the whole singing thing, putting so much gel on my hair, practicing the dance moves and all that - I was so convinced I was going to be the sixth member of Five (remember them? Probably not). Or the replacement of the ugly guy from NSync. Thank goodness I grew out of that, I think.

The "I wanna be a tank" phase:
Okay, I fall in and out of this one intermittently - I get these short bursts of "I'm gonna be so healthy and go to the gym everyday until I'm a tank" that generally seems to sizzle out after a few weeks. I was going so well up until last week, when I couldn't be bothered to get up from bed and get my lazy ass to the gym. Why is looking good so hard to obtain? I'm too damn lazy. I don't love myself that much.

The Aquarium phase:
I guess you can call this the 'pet' phase. So I get a fish tank, set it up, and get all the fishies put in. All is well and good until I realise I actually have to maintain it. I get lazy, and so the algae starts to pile up, making the fish rather invisible. You do see them again, however, floating above said algae - albeit upside down. You know what the worse part is? I've gone through this phase like, over ten times. Same result. I never learn.

Anyway, that's just a few. I'm sure you all have some - feel free to let me know. Heck, even blog about it, just let me know where you've posted it.

Cheer up, Emo Kid.

Nothing's ever that bad. Seriously.

Instead of looking what they do have, they seem to just concentrate on what they lack. They in turn have feelings of inadequacies that lead them to a slump that they feel that they can't get out of.

I've heard of really weak excuses of why someone is feeling down - from things like:

"Oh, the work is too hard"
"I hate my job"
"My girlfriend dumped me"
"My life's headed nowhere"

...and so on and so forth.

For goodness sakes, to those people, seriously, get over yourselves. You're still alive, healthy, with a roof over your head, and have family and friends who care about you. You wake up everyday with probably the greatest gift you can ever receive: A brand new day, and yet here you are, moping because of the most trivial things.

I've seen kids cancer ridden with only a chance of survival, and yet that slight chance is enough to fuel their optimism. They have the biggest smile on their faces, even despite being constantly prodded by needles, enduring chemotherapy, and battling constant fatigue.

So to those mopers out there, remember:

Nothing is ever that bad.

For reals.

Americas Most Hated Family

I watched something really, really upsetting a few nights back. It was a documentary created by the BBC called "Americas Most Hated Family". It was a fly-on-the-wall look into the workings of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC). These people are best known for picketing the funeral services of fallen military men/women of the United States Armed Forces.

They are best known here in Australia as the people who planned to picket (or did picket - I'm not too sure) Heath Ledgers funeral because of his support and portrayal of a gay character in Brokeback Mountain.

Essentially, these people are the biggest homophobes in the planet. They believe that America is doomed because of their stance on the whole LGBT issue. In short, they believe things like 9/11, fallen soldiers, or pretty much anything bad happening in the USA is caused by God punishing America for their "support" of homosexuals. Sounds crazy right?

What really, really upsets me most is that they use God as a way to enforce their agenda, and in this particular case, hate. "God Hates America", "Thank God for Dead Soldiers", "Thank God for 9/11" and "God Hates Fags" are just some of the incredibly creative sayings they have on their signs. Upsetting thing is they use the Bible to back up these statements and goes to show how open ended the Bible is for people to back up their claims. Pretty much, if you have whatever agenda, chances are you can construe some random quote from the Bible to give your agenda some backbone.

This CULT is a prime example of how people can be so deluded by their myopic view of the world. How can someone be so filled with hate that they at any chance they get go and picket any sort of event that condones national pride? I really do hope that these people can take a real good look at themselves and see that they have all been taken for a ride by false pretenses set by their "ring leader", the poor lost soul that he is.

It's a shame that religion these days have taken away the primary focus of it being one's own spiritual belief, or relationship with this greater being called "God". Instead, it has become this huge machine fuelled by agenda and propaganda. Instead of being a cohesive entity within our society, it has forced us to form groups that have socially constructed boundaries, which in turn divide us.

I know it is not all churches that do this, I know a lot that do promote equality and peace to mankind. It's just some of the few, like these people that give it such a bad name.

Please watch this and tell me that this doesn't fire you up:



Sad, huh? There are plenty more on YouTube if you search. The best ones are the backlash protests done by people against the WBC.



"That black scarf doesn't cover your red neck!" Hilarious!